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| location | Surrey, United Kingdom | |
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| visits | member for | 5 months |
| seen | Jan 23 at 14:37 | |
| stats | profile views | 7 |
I have a BA Hons degree in typographic design and Masters degree in business administration. I worked in the publishing industry for 30 years as a setter, copy editor and proof reader, before moving into management. Now semi-retired.
My main interest areas are cookery, cricket, and reading/writing.
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Dec 15 |
comment |
Should you use two spaces after a period, or just a single one? Adding double spaces after a full point is redundancy left over from manual typewriter days. When preparing text for publishing all those double spaces have to be removed. In my early days in the publishing industry that person was often me! They're not needed, all you're doing is creating work for someone else, work someone has to pay for. Don't use them. |
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Dec 15 |
reviewed | Reviewed How does one write a character smarter than oneself? |
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Dec 15 |
reviewed | Reviewed Websites that offer book/movie/story analyses useful for writers? |
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Dec 15 |
reviewed | Reviewed Are music lyrics copyrighted? |
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Dec 15 |
reviewed | Reviewed Turning Checkered Squares into Settings |
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Dec 15 |
reviewed | Reviewed Is it a bad writing practice to start sentences with a verb? |
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Dec 15 |
reviewed | Reviewed Is there a description of location required in intense moments of the story like in a love story |
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Dec 15 |
reviewed | No Action Needed How many errors should I expect from a proofreader? |
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Dec 15 |
reviewed | Reviewed Using dashes in writing dialogue |
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Dec 15 |
reviewed | No Action Needed How to convert DOI to citation information |
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Dec 14 |
answered | Are music lyrics copyrighted? |
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Dec 14 |
awarded | Critic |
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Dec 14 |
comment |
Which sort of features are required for a text editor in order to improve efficiency and comfort during writing? No it's not all in the question at all. Please clarify and elaborate on what you're referring to. Define efficiency and comfort? What are you looking to achieve? What are you using your text editor for? |
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Dec 14 |
comment |
How do collaborating authors choose an agent? @Standback You're missing the point of my answer completely. I stated quite clearly you select an agent based on the nature and subject matter of the book. Just because an author already has an agent does not mean that agent will be the best one to represent a book on a different subject matter collaborated with a second author. The process of selecting an agent is exactly the same regardless of whether one of both authors already have an agent. This is the way it works - regardless of whether you like the answer or not! |
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Dec 13 |
answered | How do collaborating authors choose an agent? |
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Dec 13 |
answered | Using uncommon abbreviations |
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Dec 12 |
awarded | Excavator |
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Dec 12 |
revised |
Is it really so “impossible” to get published by a traditional publisher? A few typos, general formating and a tidy up for sense. |
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Dec 12 |
reviewed | Reviewed How many errors should I expect from a proofreader? |
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Dec 12 |
reviewed | Reviewed Should it be a Short Story or Full Story |
